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for I have no reason to hide
anything from you—am laying myself out to the utmost on the
theory, because I wish to hear its refutation from you. Do not merely show
us by argument that justice is superior to injustice, but make clear to us
what each in and of itself does to its possessor, whereby the one is evil
and the other good. But do away with the repute of both, as Glaucon urged.
For, unless you take away from either the true repute and attach to each the
false, we shall say that it is not justice that you are praising but the
semblance,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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